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Originally Posted by LizaMarie

I honestly cant remember, but that is definitely what i heard. That it started there and sort of filtered down into everyday language.

ITs funny coz I've found 3 origins of it
1) "The precise origin of chav is a matter of debate, but most people agree on its geography, namely that it probably began in Chatham, Kent, where it was best known until it gained its recent high profile. It seems that the word itself began as a derogatory label for an older underclass, gypsies, many of whom have lived in that area for generations. (2) Language expert Michael Quinion surmises that chav may well come from the Romany word for a child, chavi, recorded from the middle of the nineteenth century. Later in the same century it was apparently used as an insult to an adult man, after which it fell into obscurity before its revival today. "


2) "Comes from Chavi/ Chava. Romany word for Boy or Man. Does not mean a Romany. Or Traveller. And is not Racist.
Chavi / Chava (Romany) comes from Chaval. Spanish for Young Man. NOT derogatory.
Chaval (Spanish) Comes from Chavalier - French for Cavalier , Gentleman or Horseman.
Chavalier (French) from Cheval or Horse.

It has NOTHING to do with chatham. Your mate (who invented it) or any other english town."



3)Cheltenham Ladies College calling Cheltenham inhabitatlnts "Cheltenham Average"



Having lived in Cheltenham around the time it becaome popular I'd vouch for it not being the last one - that would mean that the *cough* "ladies" would have had to speak to the general populace for it to get out & that ain't gonna happen!

Anyway - for Bella Kerry Katona was in a *cough* singing group called Atmoic Kitten (think Britney but there were 3 of them!). She marries a bloke in a boyband they divorced after having 2 kids, he took up with Delta Goodrum (having lost shedloads of weight) and she's been through other celebs' exs & rehab (a couple of times I think) to marry a bloke who drives a cab.

Good luck to her I say....


The Suns says:-

Kerry's rage at f*rting groom


By RICHARD WHITE
February 17, 2007

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FORMER I’m A Celeb winner KERRY KATONA spent her wedding night ALONE — after her new husband couldn’t stop parping. MARK CROFT broke wind uncontrollably throughout the Valentine’s Day wedding service in Gretna Green.
When cabbie Mark, 35, let rip again later in their hotel room, Kerry, 26, blew her top and gave him the boot for the night.
The heavily-pregnant ex-Atomic Kitten star was also fed up that their £300 bash wasn’t a patch on the glittering wedding she had with her first husband, singer BRIAN MCFADDEN.
The mum of two’s agent MAX CLIFFORD said: “Mark has been suffering from awful wind lately. He stayed in another room.”



The Sun Online - Bizarre: Kerry's rage at f*rting groom

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